[Python-Dev] Making python C-API thread safe (try 2)

[Martin v. Löwis]

Shane Hathaway <shane at zope.com> writes:

> I wonder whether others would consider such a thing valuable, or even
> feasible. :-)

I consider it valuable, but not feasible. Contrary to your analysis, I
believe the biggest problem with shared memory is pointer/address
management. E.g. if you have a shared list L, and do

L.append(1)

then a reference to the object 1 is put into L[0]. However, the
pointer is only valid in the process writing the reference, not in
other processes. Fixing that is nearly impossible, except *perhaps* by
reimplementing Python from ground up.

Regards,
Martin